Freeveiw box reception?

mrsyorkie

I know this might sound like a stupid question to you lot, but when it comes to technology i'm really thick..!

The telly reception in our house is useless. Portable aerials don't really work - some channels are ok, but the rest are really fuzzy. If I bought a freeview box, could i plug it straight in and get all the channels or would i need an outside aerial or one of those digital aerial thingamabobs and if so, how hard is it to fit myself?

Also, all the aerials in our house seem to be for Ntl/Virgin/whatever you call it. There doesn't seem to be an actual 'brown' aerial lead. In all the rooms in our house there is an ntl/virgin cablel. Could i buy from somewhere a virgin box to use in every room (we currently have virgin TV) and would it work if say someone upstairs wanted to watch something different to someone downstairs, or would we need something different?

Hoping this makes sense - it does to me but the again i have had a few beers! :beer:

buyitall

If you don't have an aerial cable, a freeview box definitely wouldn't work. If you're in a poor signal aerial, you'd probably have to have a new digital aerial fitted - when I priced them they were about £200 to fit, including wiring into 2/3 rooms. Or, you could get more cable boxes into different rooms, at a cost of either £5 or £10 per month, I'm not sure of the exact price. You could also get an AV sender from your cable box, but then you'd have to watch the same channels in the diff rooms, also AV senders don't work if your cable box is set to HD.
You could get the sky 'pay once watch forever' package - for about £75 including fitting, you could have the free sky channels forever, with 4 months of 2 sky mixes thrown in as a 'taster'. Only on one tv though, the av sender to other tv's would also work with this setup. Hope that makes sense.

gnatschuffed

Agree, the sky solution or new freesat would be your best bet, particularly if you live in a poor reception area. I wouldn't have thought a new aerial would cost that much, I would have expected it to cost around £100 but I haven't called an aerial installer in for a while!! The wireless senders can be hit and miss and if you have a flat screen LCD as the second TV, I would forget it, the pic from composite video is pants and usually unwatchable. You would be better off using the RF2 output from a skybox, speak to the sky installer if you go down that route to get the sky in the 2nd room.

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buyitall wrote: »

If you don't have an aerial cable, a freeview box definitely wouldn't work. If you're in a poor signal aerial, you'd probably have to have a new digital aerial fitted -

No such thing as a " digital " aerial.;)